http://www.debka.com/ DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism, Security en Copyright 2000-2007 DEBKAfile Wed, 14 May 2008 09:11:56 +0300 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:11:56 +0300 webmaster@debka.com (Debka.com Webmaster) http://www.debka.com/images/logo.gif http://www.debka.com/ <p>Up to 80 people were killed, 150 injured, when eight bombing devices exploded in bustling streets outside the crowded Mawa Mahal temple Tuesday, May 13. Some of the devices were strapped to bicycles, one to a rickshaw puller. No group has claimed the attack.</p><p>Some local police sources pointed to the Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islamia which has established cells in Rajasthan; others suggested an extremist Islamic Pakistani group staged the attack to undermine the India-Pakistan peace process.</p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5266 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:11:56 +0300 <p><b><b>DEBKA-Net-Weekly</b></b> offers exclusive revelations on the internal and regional dynamics of multicultural Lebanon’s fall into the Iran-dominated Shiite net. Why wasn’t it stopped?</p><p>Don’t miss this and other exclusives in the coming issue out Friday.</p><p> <b>To subscribe to <b>DEBKA-Net-Weekly</b> click <i><a href="http://www.debka-net-weekly.com?ref=001" target="_blank">HERE</a></i> </b> .</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5265 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:10:04 +0300 <p><b>DEBKA<i>file</i></b>’s military sources report: After six days of fighting between government loyalists and Hizballah leave close to a 100 dead and 200 wounded, the Lebanese army’s demand that all combatants lay down their arms will go unheeded until the Shiite terrorists decide they have achieved their goals. </p><p>Hizballah is now focusing on the northern Tripoli region and the central mountains east of Beirut in line with those goals after deciding there is no need at this stage to topple the pro-Western Siniora government.</p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5263 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:10:04 +0300 <p>Handing over the command of the air force at a ceremony on Tuesday, May 13, Maj. Gen. Eliezer Shkedy warned that Israel faces threats unknown in the past. “We must prepare itself to withstand them as a nation, as an army and as an air force,” he said. The incoming air force chief Maj. Gen. Eidan Nehushtan said the regime in Tehran combines poisonous rhetoric with actions drawn from an ideology that denies Israel the right to exist.</p><p></p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5264 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:10:04 +0300 <p>Egyptian intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman Monday, May 12, presented the truce plan he negotiated with Hamas leaders in Cairo to Israel’s prime minister Ehud Olmert, defense minister Ehud Barak and foreign minister Tzipi Livni. </p><p><b>DEBKA<i>file</i></b>’s sources report they essentially accepted the offer with some caveats and agreed to treat kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit as a separate issue. The deal calls on Israel to end its blockade on the Gaza Strip and accept Egyptian guarantees to stop arms smuggling through Sinai.</p><p><b>DEBKA<i>file</i></b>'s military sources accuse prime minister Olmert of surrendering to Hamas in the same way as Lebanon's Siniora yielded to Hizballah.</p><p></p><p></p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5262 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:10:04 +0300 <p>Shuli Katz, 70, mother of four, grandmother of five, from Kibbutz Gvar-Am, was on a family visit to Moshav Yesha south of Ofakim. She was killed instantly as she stepped out of a car by an exploding Qassam missile fired from Gaza. Jihad Islami claimed the second Israeli fatality of Palestinian attacks in four days. </p><p>Jimmy Kedoshim from Kibbutz Kfar Azza died after being struck by a Palestinian mortar last Friday, May 9. Over the weekend, more than 22 missiles were fired from Gaza. Early Monday, May 12, two Katyusha rockets from Gaza exploded in southern Ashkelon. One just missed a school, leaving several children in shock and damaging buildings. An alert sent town-dwellers diving for shelter. </p><p></p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5261 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:10:04 +0300 <p><b>DEBKA<i>file</i></b>’s Middle East sources report that in the last 48 hours, Damascus has broadcast new, intransigent policy positions through diverse channels under the influence of Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert’s legal plight and the swift victories its ally, Hizballah, has achieved in Lebanon. </p><p>1. Leaders in Olmert’s position are only capable of making war – not peace, according to leaks from Damascus to Arab media. For this reason, Syrian officials claim after the fact that they exposed the secret meeting scheduled to take place between Israeli and Syrian officials in Turkey to sabotage it.</p><p></p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5260 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:10:04 +0300 <p><b>DEBKA<i>file</i></b>’s military sources report that three weeks before Hizballah seized western Beirut, the Shiite terrorist group took delivery of 35 fast speedboats for use with explosives from Iran. The craft can threaten US Sixth Fleet and Israel Navy shipping close to Lebanese shores, reach Israel’s Haifa and Ashdod Mediterranean ports and raid its coastal oil installations.</p><p>They were delivered in mid-April by an Iranian freighter at the Syrian port of Latakia and trucked to Naimah port south of Beirut. </p><p></p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5258 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:10:04 +0300 <p><b>DEBKA<i>file</i></b>’s military sources report: Hizballah’s advance on two key Lebanese locations Saturday, May 10 had immediate effect on the strategic balance between the Iran-backed Shiite group and Israel. Sidon in the south, Lebanon’s second largest city, which provides Hizballah with control of a continuous coastal strip from its southern Beirut district all the way to Tyre. </p><p>The second point is on the northern slopes of the Hermon range. After Hizballah seizes control of this enclave and the Syrian 10th and 14th armored divisions step over the border into Lebanon, the two forces can join to form a strong military line opposite Israel near the Litani River.</p><p></p><p></p> http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5256 Wed, 14 May 2008 09:10:17 +0300